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16 May 2011, 12:10 pm by Steve Davies
The Center for Biological Diversity is continuing to oppose an agreement between WildEarth Guardians and the Fish and Wildlife Service that would require FWS to address the status of 251 species over the next six years. [read post]
13 May 2011, 11:40 am by Steve Davies
” In the Washington Post, CBD Executive Director Kieran Suckling was quoted as saying the center pulled out of talks with FWS “at the last hour”: Although Tuesday’s agreement appears to resolve the legal impasse that has dogged most of these species, it still needs to be accepted by the court, and it remains unclear whether the Center for Biological Diversity will sign off. [read post]
6 May 2011, 12:15 pm by Steve Davies
Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Clearwater and WildEarth Guardians filed their complaint (coverage in the Great Falls Tribune) Thursday, as did the Center for Biological Diversity (press release and lawsuit). [read post]
6 May 2011, 11:35 am by cornellvermontlaw
The Center for Biological Diversity recently donated the book Eco Barons to the Cornell Library Environmental Collection, on behalf of the great work by Teresa Clemmer and the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 12:00 am by Paul Weiland
 The Times reports that "[t]wo environmental groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians, have filed 90 percent of the listings petitions since 2007. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 7:21 pm by Keith Rizzardi
Photo of huge chinook salmon after spawning on Battle Creek in fall 2008 by the California DFG, available online from indybay.org  According to the Center for Biological Diversity and other petitioners seeking to list the species, spring-run and fall-run Chinook salmon populations in the Upper Klamath and Trinity Rivers Basin are experiencing significant decline, and additionally are increasingly dominated by hatchery fall-run Chinook salmon. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 7:55 am by othernations
”… “We are having the worst attack on the Endangered Species Act in 30 years while we have a Democratic Senate and a Democratic White House,” said Kieran Suckling with the Center for Biological Diversity. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 1:10 pm by Paul Weiland
"  The petition (pdf) was filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Oregon Wild, Environmental Protection Information Center, and The Larch Company. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 10:06 am
" "We are seeking to train people who can develop new nanoscale materials and nanoparticles that will address biological functions related to the growth and spread of cancer, or metastasis, at a mechanistic level," said Wirtz, who also directs INBT's Engineering in Oncology Center and is INBT's associate director. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 8:28 pm by Keith Rizzardi
 On February 11, 2010, in three separate but virtually identical letters, the Service denied the Conservancy’s January 2009 petition, the Center for Biological Diversity’s September 2009 petition, and the Sierra Club’s November 2009 petition, and refused to designate critical habitat for the Florida Panther. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 8:56 am by Eric Biber
  Organizations such as the Center for Biological Diversity have lodged petitions with FWS and NOAA to list hundreds of species (see, e.g., here)  FWS in particular has a huge backlog of species that it believes warrant listing but for which funding is not available to complete the listing process (see here for a list of the 260 candidate species that fall in this category) One reason FWS has so many deserving species waiting for listing is that for years… [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 11:57 am by Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal
Today we filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Defenders of Wildlife, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the National Wildlife Federation, supporting the State and Land Trust plaintiffs that brought suit challenging defendants’ substantial contributions to climate change as injurious to their proprietary and other interests that are being devastated by global warming and other climatic disturbances traceable to greenhouse gas… [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 6:18 pm by Keith Rizzardi
 Increasingly, to the frustration of many environmental advocates, the federal regulatory agencies are exercising their discretion NOT to list species by relying upon the ESA's "warranted but precluded" concept, as was the case for the Flat tailed horned lizard (see LA Times). a Nevada butterfly known as the Mount Charleston blue (see Federal Register and Center for Biological Diversity). [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 10:43 am by Lauren Valk
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the Chiricauhua leopard frog is threatened by predation from nonnative species, a fungal disease, and habitat degradation from livestock grazing, mining, stream diversions, groundwater pumping and loss of natural fire regimes. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 9:16 am by Paul Weiland
  As we explained in a prior post, the Service agreed to issue a 12-month finding by September 30, 2011, as part of a settlement agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity and the Bay Institute. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 4:09 pm by almaraz
Bethany represents the Center for Biological Diversity and Dan is with FLOW. [read post]